Microsoft PowerShell snippets

List of short working PowerShell script samples to get started!

Add a directory to PATH environment variable

Allow all script files executable (dangerous)

Allow signed scripts to be executable

Append output of a command to a file

Change the current directory

Change to alias drive

Change to certificate store drive

Change to function drive

Change to variable drive

Declare a vaiable and store a value to it

Delete a variable

Delete files recursively

Delete items of certain property value

Display 5 most recent events in an EventLog

Display first 5 items in the output

Execute a command from history

Filter the output by a value of a property

Get a value from WMI object

Get the value stored in a variable

Group files in a directory by file extension

Make a copy of a file in a specified directory

Make a copy of a file

Preview the effect of a command without actually commiting it

Search for text using pattern matching (grep)

Sign a script file using a pfx cert stored in a variable

Sort files in a directory

Store a pfx certificate to variable

Test if object has certain property

Test if path exists or not

View abridged help for a command one page at a time

View all help content for a a command

View all running processes that start with letter a

View all running processes

View an environment variable item

View history of commands

View just the list of directories (exlude other types)

View list of all commands one page at a time

View list of all commands

View list of all PowerShell drives

View members of the first object in the directory

View members of the type of objects

View recent command (similar to history)

View sub-keys of a Windows Registry key

View the attributes of a directory

View the content of a file

View the contents of a directory

View the current execution policy

View the list of all environment variables

View the value of an environment variable

Write output of a command to a file (more Powershell style)

Write output of a command to a file

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